TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lott,Eric
TI  - Black mirror: the cultural contradictions of American racism 
SN  - 9780674981478
AV  - P94 .B533 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Racism in mass media
KW  - Racism in popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - White people
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Black people
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - African Americans in the performing arts
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; Black mirror: states of fantasy and symbolic surplus value --; Our blackface America: Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow --; The mirror has two faces: white ethnic semi-mojo --; House of mirrors: the whiteness of film noir --; White like me: racial trans and the culture of civil rights --; Tar baby and the great white wonder: Joni Mitchell's pimp game --; All the king's men: Elvis impersonators and white working-class masculinity --; Just like Jack Frost's blues: masking and melancholia in Bob Dylan's 'Love and theft'; 2; b
N2  - Black Mirror explores the ways U.S. cultural institutions--classic American literature, Hollywood film, pop musical artistry, venturesome social commentary--have relied insistently and repeatedly on racial symbolic capital, including and above all blackface, to reproduce white cultural dominance. In the process these forms have threatened to betray the racial hegemony that generated them and that they exist in order to maintain. Hence the subtitle, The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism. In a series of chapters addressing such arts and artists as Mark Twain, film noir, Joni Mitchell, Elvis impersonators, Bob Dylan, and Barack Obama, Black Mirror locates the symbolic surplus value that accrues to white cultural producers and institutions whenever they traffic in "blackness"--A political economy of the sign that can sometimes surprise us (not least by producing a black president).--
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